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May 2, 2022 · An extensive list of the smallest planes in the world, ranging from one-off record-chasing airplanes built in a garage to production aircraft with thousands of units in sales.
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The Starr Bumble Bee II is an experimental aircraft designed and built specifically to acquire the title of “The World’s Smallest Airplane”.
The Colomban Cri-Cri, also spelled Cricri, is the smallest twin-engined crewed aircraft in the world, designed in the early 1970s by French aeronautical engineer Michel Colomban.
- Stits SA-2A Sky Baby. In 1952, with a great goal to beat the previously set record, Robert Starr and Ray Stits built the Sky Baby. There were specific requirements for this plane – one of those is that its pilot must weight 77kg to guarantee that the gravity was kept in the right place.
- Starr Bumble Bee. The Sky Baby’s record stood until 1984, when Robert Starr designed the Bumble Bee. With a wingspan of as small as 2 meters, the plane took flight to Marana, Arizona that same year and claimed the Guinness World Record immediately.
- Stits DS-1 Baby Bird. That same year, 1984, Ray Stits’ son, Donald Stits, decided to attempt at reclaiming the title of the World’s Smallest Airplane from Starr’s Bumble Bee.
- Cri-Cri. A small two-engine aircraft Cri-Cri was built by an aeronautical engineer Michel Colomban in 1971. He aimed to create an economic plane that would also be able to do aerobatic manoeuvres.
The smallest aircraft to fly is the Starr Bumble Bee II, a biplane designed and built by Robert H. Starr (USA). Bumble Bee II had a wingspan of just 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), a total length of only 8 ft 10 inches (2.69 m) and was 3 ft 11 in (1.2 m) high.
Nothing about it said wife and kids. Built at home, slipped on at the airport, it was a single-seat, man-size toy. With a fuselage not much bigger than a motorcycle (empty weight: about 450...
The DS-1 is a single-engine, single-seat highwing aircraft. Development started in 1980 to beat Ray Stits's record for World's smallest aircraft, the Stits SA-2A Sky Baby flown by Robert H. Starr.
